(5/13/06)-Host Steve Owens sets the record straight with facts about poison ivy and explains how to correctly identify poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac.
I've watched a lot of videos about poison ivy-oak-sumac, and I have to say this is the best and most informative one I've seen. I live on 10 acres in the woods and it is literally everywhere. Thankfully I don't get affected by it, but my wife on the other hand is one of the most sensitive people I know. I like how you covered boxelder too. I just found a boxelder tree in my woods behind my pole barn and was confused until I researched a bit and found out what it was. Great video sir!
Botany lesson on leaves starting at 4:00 was A+. After watching this, I was finally able to identify poison ivy without freaking out about other plants that have a leaf with compound leaflets and a singleton at the tip. Thanks!
Something this video fails to explain is that urushiol should be treated like a poisonous invisible grease; something analogous to an automotive grease that you can't see. Using only soapy water and rubbing contaminated skin with your hands won't effectively wash it off. A washrag or something equivalent is needed to effectively remove urushiol residue from the skin.
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By far the best informational video on poison ivy I’ve ever seen! You actually got into the botany science explaining the difference in the leaf structures! I learned a great deal here, even beyond the primary subject matter. Makes me want to study more about plants in general. Thank you!
I second this!! I’m having a huge reaction right now all over my face, neck, and arms (and other places) and my family kept wanting me to go to urgent care because it’s around my eyes as well and that can be dangerous, but this video and the comments on RU-vid are way more useful than any “wikihow” or tutorial I’ve found on Google. It really does make you want to study botany!!
For most of my life I never lived where there was any contact with poison ivy. I never saw it. Now I've moved out in the country and I have acres of it. The crap is everywhere.
Very good video,thank you...now I know. I'm cleaning out old fence line so I'll be very careful not to touch the plant or the vines... You are a very good teacher.
Best Poison Ivy video I seen. Thank you. When I was a young boy. I loved to explore the woods. That's when I learned the hard way. Poison ivy grows in vines. I had it all over my face and my arms.
Thank you for the detailed education on leaf types and how to distinguish what is or is not poison ivy. I found this very informative and useful. Thank you!
What a great educational.video!!! I am one of those that suffer greatly every time I have an exposure to poison ivy. This video is worth watching multiple times!!! Thank you!!!
I wish you had gone into detail of how to identify poison sumac... There is much of this sumac on long island ny.. Perhaps u can address poison sumac on another video.. All that said i would like to thank you for your expertise and efforts...God Bless
Great video. Straight to the point. Easy to understand. Very helpful. I am new to Texas, never saw or heard about poison oak or ivy. Love camping. Need to learn.
Great info, i'am suffering right now with this rash.My dog ran through the woods 2 Sundays ago. I know thats how I got it. I had really never known what these plants look like. Thanks...............
I started collecting small trees in my back yard to make into bonsai and ran across a sapling with an interesting leaf shape. I am glad i saw this video and could tell difference between boxelder and poisen ivy. Thank you. I will very carefully pull them out and garbage them
Very informative. Thank you! I have always been allergic to poison ivy and, having woods on my property & several creek banks, I'm always on the look out for it.
@@bridgetholbert technu is used before and during work, not after. It has a chemical formulated to keep the oil from binding to your skin as easy and to wash off easier, but after you get the rash it is just like any other chemical/cleaner. Try different ones to see which one easies the itching/rash for you, each person is different. Use technu before your going to work in such plants, and during. Afterwards wash very well with soap, degreaser, or which ever wash you usually like. Orange hand cleaner is great for getting off oil also. But after the oil binds to your skin nothing will remove the chemical, only time. So after you get the rash try out different products to see which ones reduce the itching best for you. Also use skin lotion to keep the skin from drying out/cracking due to the rash.
This video is 8 years old, but I just wanted to say that from personal experience, I have seen poison oak, ivy and sumac in Northern California. Specifically in the Sierra Nevada foothills in the general area and surrounding areas from the valley of Sacramento up to the higher elevations in Nevada County and also a little lower in Yuba county. I was not allergic to these plants when I was younger and lived in Arkansas. When I was 13 I got mono and ebstien bar. Not sure if it is only a coincidence but I have been allergic to this oil ever since. Have had so many severe reactions after hikes in the woods. I thought poison oak was all I had to look out for but after getting a severe reaction seemingly different slightly than before, I went back to see why and I found ivy and sumac poison plants scattered everywhere as young and small plants sprouting up. It was early spring and the ivy was starting up everywhere and the sumac was coming up in the area’s with soft and waterlogged earth. This was several years ago and I have noticed all three plants nearly every nature walk through the woods since then. They have definitely had no problems flourishing here and have been the cause of many weeks of misery for me.
This video is very useful I appreciate this opportunity for you to teach us to be careful in the forest or at our backyard or anything outside to be careful not to touch any plants. P.s ❤️
Thank you, Thank you, thank you. After my first recent exposure to poison ivy, I did not want to come to my garden. Your explanations and video guide help a lot.
Washing with only cold water is going to do nothing! Use any kind of *soap WITH A WASHRAG* to both break down the oil AND mechanically remove it. Just try washing any other kind of oil -- butter, olive oil, bacon fat, packing grease -- with cold water alone. Then wipe vigorously with a cloth or paper towel to see the difference. Definitely appreciate the botany lessons for telling them apart, especially difference between the toxic plants and boxelder!
On those big poison ivy vines climbing the trees do the following to kill it down to the roots. Make a small cut about 1/2 way through about chest height. Spray full strength Crossbow herbicide in the cut area. You can use a brush also to apply the herbicide. Go back every few days and repeat. You can use a brush too to apply. After a week or two, finish cutting and hit the stump with another application of Crossbow. If you just cut the vine all the way through the ivy will start sprouting from the roots all over the ground. Do this and it will kill it roots and all. Incidently, Roundup will not work nearly as well. Its just not that good on viney plants such as Ivy and honeysuckle. Applying Crossbow or Roundup directly on the stump of a tree within a few minutes of cutting will prevent it from sprouting back up. Trees like maple and sweet gum, which is a type of maple, are good candidates for doing this.
Thanks for making this video, it was very educational for me. I just wish I had seen it a week ago. LOL! I got into some poison ivy last week and have been trying to get rid of the rash ever since.
Thanks for these valuable info. I had doubts whether my hives emanated from the garden or the food alergy, but now i am almost certain that I have had this poison ivy. But I am told there is no poison ivy in UK.
Great video. I like how you showed that poison oak can be mistaken for poison ivy. Knowing that, I think I may have some poison oak out front instead of p ivy
This guy sorta reminds me of a young Martin Milner from the Adam-12 tv series. Officer Pete Malloy reporting for a discussion about the dangers of poison ivy! I learned a lot! Thanks!
Its good to be familiar with identifying poison ivy without leaves before you start running a chainsaw. Trust me on that. I didnt realize that 3" thick vine wrapped around the dead blowdown was poison ivy. I found out a few hours later though.
Keep a full tube of Zanfel if anyone is allergic. Use Zanfel soon as possible one time at first sign of breakout is much cheaper than after it spreads.
I live in Tulsa. I found what I believed was poison oak growing from the ground as if coming up from an underground vine. This was after searching due to getting a short-lived rash after doing some trimming in my back yard. I cut the plants at the ground, bagged them and sprayed Roundup. I kept this up all summer in several sections of my yard inside and outside a chain link fence. My yard is heavily shaded and overgrown with a variety of vines and small trees. I found the major vine( 'hairy' and about an inch in diameter) on the fence. I cut it at the base and sprayed it with roundup. This was 5-7 years ago. I have not come in contact again with this plant nor seen any plants. I have plenty of Virginia Creeper and sometime have to take a double take, but so far I feel it is long gone. Could I be so lucky as to have killed it off, or should I expect to see it eventually reappear. THanks. Your program was by far the most helpful and informative! I never wear gloves when pulling vines. I recognize most tree seedlings. I just trust my eyes and love to be outdoors pruning and pulling greens that don't belong. Could I be immune? Or just lucky. Thanks.
Laura Singer Virginia creeper can cause a reaction because of the oxilate crystals that are in the vine. But nothing like poison ivy. I like the way it looks and many people use it for growing on their houses. It turns a pretty red in the fall. I like it!
Like he said, there are variations in the sub species. Other plants can break you out. Poison hemlock, cow weed, hogweed, & this red vining plant with feelers like grapes that has compound leaflets of three. Grows from Florida to Virginia & is in the wisteria family.
start of vid went off topic, but this overall was excellent vid, contrast is most important for these vids, what it IS and what it is NOT thanks AND GOD BLESS
Your maps show the state of Oregon to be free of these toxic plants. However I grew up in the Willamette Valley and we have a type of Poison Oak which is quite prevalent. Its foliage becomes quite shiny and red, and dwells in shady areas under conifers. It’s a ground creeper. Can you say something about this one?
Also heard it described as Scarlet Sumac. The berry clusters look like tiny tight crimson grape clusters, but they're hairy. The branches are also like a deer in felt. Very interesting looking! Poison sumac has white berries. Don't make tea with that one! If you make tea with the Scarlet Sumac, strain it before drinking, to remove all the hairs from the brew. It tastes a bit like lemonade, unless you brew it too long, then it has a musky taste to it. I used to collect the clusters and brew the tea in Pennsylvania, years ago. Now I live in the deep South, and I haven't seen any growing around here.
great job! I actually watched this to slam it.. But, while you used " fancy" words... as the "OLD Timers" would say! ( LOL ) You were 100% correct on all info in your video!! (Let me add this.... To understand how hard it is to wash poison ivy off your hands, put wheel bearing grease on your skin! I use cold water & soaps like Tide.)
Was that even poison ivy during the botany lesson? I don't think it has serrated or crenated leaf edges. I have seen it present as a "mitten" but mostly it is smooth-edged.
You can use hot soapy water and friction, eg a rough wash cloth or sponge to wash the oil off the skin up to a few hours after exposure. Any time I have been exposed( its in my yard!) it takes several days for a rash to appear or any itching.
yep the rash can take from a day to a week to show up. When your washing your hands/arms etc to try and remove such oil, think of the oil as Tar. Its very stick, very hard to get off, and very stubborn. Even washing like 5-10 minutes good will only remove maybe 1/2 the oil on exposed areas. Don't be afraid after such outdoor work to really scrub good, hard, and long to remove that horrible invisible oil.
Nice video! I found once I have it and the itch is unbearable I can get total relief for a few hours by heating the area as hot or hotter than I can stand for a second or two with a hair dryer or very hot water. So hot you can only take a second or two. Works on mosquito bites too. Saved my sanity!
Another thing you can get is jewel weed products! Jewel weed is God’s natural antidote to poison ivy! The oil in the stems, leaves, and roots provide aid for poison ivy symptoms! They also protect against ever getting it! My best advice is get jewel weed salve, and you can rub it on the rash/ bumps! God bless you!
yep that is what i do also. The heat will cause it to itch more since its opening up the receptors, but it will also overload the receptors after a while to the point it will stop the itch and will take some time to "reset" . I usually find with myself taking 3 hot showers a day keeps the itching down , and occasional hair dryer treatments to problem areas (usually wrists) for those occasional itch flareups.
I was always taught," leaves of three let it be" when it comes to ivy/oak when cutting weeds, or camping, in woods, etc,.. So it has kept me safe from it.
